#i have fourteen to go

[linusbenjamin]

I've never been so happy in my life.

[anna-scribbles]

emma dupain cheng on the brain😽🎀

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[its-your-mind]

*deep breath in*

the fears 👏 have always 👏 been (in one way or another) 👏 parallel 👏 to 👏 desire 👏

let me explain.

so many of the statements given by actual avatars center around some sort of need that was met by their entity. Lots of them even had a positive relationship with the fear that drove them.

Jane Prentiss is an excellent example - the Corruption has always been about a form of toxic and possessive love, but she personally has a deep desire to be “fully consumed by what loves her,” and finds a perverse joy and relief at allowing herself to be a home

Jude Perry is another - she fucking loved watching people’s lives be utterly destroyed. The Desolation only offered her a power of destruction on a grander scale, and then gave her a more intense rush of joy as she did its work. When she tells Jon that he needs to feed the Eye before it feeds on him, it’s almost as an afterthought; she was happily feeding the Desolation long before it burned her into a new existence.

Simon Fairchild. Every time that old loose bag of bones wanders into the picture, he is having a fucking EXCELLENT time playing with the Vast. He loves showing people their own insignificance, and he loves luring them into situations where he can throw them into the void as he smiles and waves.

Peter Lukas (hell, the whole Lukas family (except Evan. RIP Evan.)) hated. people. all he wanted was for them all to go away, to leave him alone. The Lonely only fulfilled that desire.

Daisy, Trevor, and Julia, all devoted to hunting those things they deemed monstrous.

Melanie, holding tight to that bullet in her leg because on some level, she wanted it. It felt good, it felt right, it felt like it fit right alongside the anger and spite that drove her to success.

Annabelle Cane first encountered the Web when she was a child, running away from home in order to tug on her parents’ heartstrings in just the right way to have them wrapped around her little finger. Later on she volunteered to be the subject of an ESP study. Hell, she’s the one who dangled the “Is it really You that wants this?” question over Jon’s head in S4.

And that brings us to Jon, beloved Jarchivist, the Voice that Opened the Door. Ever since he was a child targeted by the Web, he was looking for answers. He joined the Magnus Institute’s Research Department looking for them, he stalked his coworkers in search for them, he broke into Gertrude’s flat and laptop out of desperation for them. And when he realized that all he had to do was Ask to get truthful answers to his questions? It was only natural for him to jump at that opportunity.

Elias told S3 Jon that he did want this, that he chose it, that at every crossroads he kept pushing onwards, and the inner turmoil that caused was one of the focal points for Jon’s character through the rest of the podcast.

There’s a certain line of thinking in many circles about the power of the Devil: he’s not able to create anything new. All he’s able to do is twist and warp that which was already present, making it something ugly and profane while still maintaining the facade of something desirable.

Jon didn’t choose the Eye. But he did wander into its realm of power, exhibiting exactly the qualities it was most capable of hijacking and warping to its own ends. Jon didn’t choose the Apocalypse. But Jonah picked at him little by little, pointing him towards each Fear individually. Jon didn’t want to release the Fears. But the Web tugged on his strings just so and laid a pretty trail for him to follow until he reached its desired conclusion.

Jon didn’t choose ultimate power, or omniscience, or even his own role as Head Archivist. But he said “yes” to the right (wrong?) orders and kept on pushing for the right (wrong?) answers. He wanted to succeed at the work he had been assigned. He wanted to protect his friends. He wanted to rescue them when they were lost. He wanted to prevent the apocalypse, to save the world. He wanted to know why he was still alive, when so many had died right in front of him.

The Great Wheel of Evil Color that is the Entities might not fit as neatly into categories in this universe - maybe there was no Robert Smirke trying to impose strict categories on emotional experiences, or maybe the ways they manifest in the world has turned on its head (goodness knows many of them have been showcased and blended in some very fun and new and horrifying ways so far) - but their fundamental foundations seem to be the same. Hell, in episode one we learned that there had been enough individual incidents to create a distinction between “dolls, watching” and “dolls, human skin.”

Smirke’s Fourteen isn’t going to be relevant as common parlance, RQ said that already, but I don’t think that means the Fears themselves (and their Dream Logic-based rules) are different - I think it means that the levels of understanding, language used, and personal connections among people “in the know” are going to be entirely unfamiliar

[whatsfourteenupto]

How is 14 dealing with his social paranoia these days in the crowded shops and how often does he threaten to sonic someone because they spooked him?

Noise canceling headphones would just make him worse because he'd feel more vaunerabld and he's definitely subconsciously checking around corners these days at Tesco right?

Oh boy the first few months our guy was not okay. He could handle crowded spaces, because if they hadn’t been able to he’d never have survived this far, but it was with extreme stress. Hyper-vigilant barely begins to cover it.

These days, they’ve got better ways of handling it. It’s a hard no on the headphones because they don’t like any of their senses being cut off. His biggest go-to is just bailing. Fourteen is a MAJOR proponent of “If it sucks, hit da bricks!!” He will literally just yeet off. There were several times at the beginning where Donna freaked out because she didn’t see him leave, so now it’s a rule that he tells someone he’s with. In the rare event that they can’t say anything, the family has each other’s locations on their phones. He’s getting better about not forcing themselves to stay until they really truly are freaking out, but sometimes they still can’t catch it in time. He’ll get there.

Luckily he lives a life where bailing is almost always an option he can take. As far as shopping, in France they stick to smaller local shops and open-air places like farmers markets as much as he can. There are plenty of days when yes, they finds themselves subconsciously checking around the corner, or cataloguing exits, or keeping an eye on people that maybe aren’t as suspicious and his mind is making them out to be. But slowly, those days are becoming fewer and further between.

[mayvaava]

I’m going to be physically unwell he is such a good kid and he loves his grandpa so much I am going insane

[seaweedstarshine]

[just after having helped River make a getaway from a heist of an astatine lace shawl — the rarest substance in the universe — without her even needing to ask beyond a simple “hello sweetie” scrawl in the sky] [Eleventh Doctor] “I can see its worth — but Alice is right! What’s so special about a lace shawl?” [River] “Ah, well, lace, you see, is the traditional gift for a thirteenth wedding anniversary…” [Eleventh Doctor] “Wedding anniversary? Whose wedding anniversary?” [River] “Spoilers…!” *winks* [Thirteenth Doctor, reminiscing] “I love River.”

HAPPY THIRTEENTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY TO THE DOCTOR AND RIVER SONG!

Sources: Diary of River Song: The Furies, Diary of River Song: The Lady in the Lake, The Day of the Moon, Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition #33, The Wedding of River Song, The Big Bang, The Angels Take Manhattan, The Many Lives of Doctor Who: Without a Paddle, The Time of the Doctor, Forest of the Dead, Let's Kill Hitler, Diary of River Song: The Wife of River Song, Eleventh Doctor Year Two: Physician Heal Thyself, A Good Man Goes to War, Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Broken Hearts, The Husbands of River Song, Doctor Who Confidential: When Time Froze

[variousqueerthings]

my cute post about fourteen with the noble family is flying off the shelves, but not enough people interested in the queerness contained within the deeply intimate erotic implications of fourteen/fifteen being consciously inside one another? no fans of science fiction premises queering the visceral physical nature of knowing someone/oneself deeper than anyone else? the queerness of asexual reproduction depicting an intense connection with the self that is nigh-indescribable but is canonically beautiful and loving? the queerness inherent in fourteen's and fifteen's relationship with one another retroactively stretching back to encompass every single iteration of the doctor? the queer ideas encapsulated through depicting one being with oneself like that? the queerness that is pushing the limits of thinking up language about how we relate to our own/others bodies in space/time that is possible in science fiction? nobody think bi-regeneration is very sexy queer-coded?

[i3atbabyz]

wtf have I created 💀

[davidtennan-t]

New clip from the Giggle!

[possiblyawesometmblr]

i think if you were to go back in time and tell my fourteen year old self that peeta mellark was going to be playing the security guard in the fnaf movie i would have imploded on the spot

[rhys-ravenfeather]

Thoughts on Danny Phantom Season 3

So.

I mentioned lately that I recently got through rewatching all of Danny Phantom, and now that I've seen the series with a fresh pair of eyes, including the third season, I feel like giving my honest opinion on the latter season.

I should point out that I was a teenager myself while DP was airing, and I remember frequenting websites with other Danny fans, and being excited for new episodes.

And I know that this is probably an unpopular opinion but...I don't think the third DP season was bad. It was more wasted potential than anything else.

Like?! There WERE good ideas here--I really liked seeing the new ghosts, good and bad! I would have loved to see more of Danny and Frostbite's student-mentor relationship! I would have liked to see more of Amorpho and Undergrowth--not to mention Dani and Valerie! Jazz as a more full-fledged member of Team Phantom!

Maybe you disagree with me, and that's fine, this is just my opinion--but I feel like one more season, or at least more episodes in the third season to expand the story and characters naturally, would have benefitted the series greatly. The third season just feels like a LOT crammed into one season, that didn't even run as long as the other two, and that made the last third of the show feel...inorganic?

Also yeah, if I've said it once I'll say it a thousand times--Valerie and Dani were done dirty. Justice for my girls!

[aq2003]

i saw a post saying boom was good bc it feels like it could be done with any doctor/companion duo and honestly that was one of the things i felt was wrong with it

[avemakuta]

Next multi-doctor special wishlist:

Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor, in the flesh, in a full episode, before it's too late.

Eleven, in between the Ponds and Clara, so we get to really see what he's like between companions.

David Tennant does not appear, so that Jenny can appear.

[princeofuchiha]

Time travel au with Shizuma where he ends up in the past and attempts to join the Akastuki by offering them information on the future. Giving them intel he learned in school/from stories to avoid their eventual defeat (/eventual 'peace' in the mist). And being horrified as a good chunk of the organization is like "Maybe we should speed run this if we have a clean shot to achieving peace actually" while he is there going "no no no listen that is NOT the message I am trying to deliver"

[catofoldstones]

wishing jorah mormont a very STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM THAT UNDERAGE GIRL

[lovelaceisntdead]

The binding of Mabel has Begun.